UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 3, Page 4
September 14, 1995
Up and coming

Saturday Morning Math is for kids
     Students in first through eighth grades are eligible to enroll in
the University's Saturday Morning Math program, which is designed to
enrich mathematical experiences in ways not normally emphasized in
school. Problem-solving strategies and computer programming are used
to encourage interest in mathematics.
     Registration begins Sept. 18 for the first session, which will
run for six consecutive Saturdays, beginning Oct. 14. Those enrolling
have a choice of three sections: 8:30-10 a.m.; 10:15-11:45 a.m. and
noon to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $40 per student for any six-week session.
     Enrollment is limited, and students are registered on a first-
paid, first-served basis, although checks will be returned if sent in
before the beginning registration date.
     Classes will be taught by program coordinator Martie McCormick, a
teacher with experience in kindergarten through ninth grades; and
Yvonne Aluise, a teacher of third, fourth and fifth grade Chapter One
mathematics. Classes will be held in the Mathematical Sciences
Teaching and Learning Center, in Room 006A Pearson Hall.
     Other sessions will be held beginning on Jan. 6 (registration
opens Dec. 11) and Feb. 24 (registration opens Feb. 13). Different
material is covered in each set of classes. For information, call the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at 831-2140.


Local legends in bookstore Sept. 28
     A program of "Ghost Tales and Local Legends" will be presented at
7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, in the lower level of the University
Bookstore by author and storyteller Ed Okonowicz, public relations.
     The presentation is free to all UD students and University
employees and their children, ages 10 and above. The program is not
appropriate for small children. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A book signing
and sale of Okonowicz's latest book, Welcome Inn, the third volume of
his Spirits Between the Bays series, will follow the performance.
     For information, call 831-2637.


Foreign film series set in Georgetown
     World Cinema I, a series of five international films, will be
shown in Georgetown this fall by the University's Division of
Continuing Education and the Parallel Program.
     A VHS format will allow the films to be shown on a large-screen
projection system in the West Theatre of the Georgetown campus of
Delaware Technical and Community College. All films are scheduled at 7
p.m. on Wednesday nights and are free and open to the public.
     Mark W. McLeod, assistant professor of history, and Nancy
McCagney, assistant professor of philosophy, both at UD, will
introduce the films.
     The series includes:
     Oct. 4-Indochine. This highly acclaimed film offers a sweeping
vision of Vietnamese history from the colonial period through the
Geneva conference of 1954. Catherine Deneuve stars as the owner of a
rubber plantation whose adopted Vietnamese daughter becomes a
revolutionary. The film is in Vietnamese and French, with English
subtitles.
     Oct. 11-Gandhi Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud and
Martin Sheen star in the Academy Award-winning film chronicling the
story of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian nationalist movement against
British colonialism. The film is in English.
     Oct. 25-A Taxing Woman's Return. Nobuko Miyamoto stars as the
tenacious tax inspector investigating a corrupt fundamentalist
religious order in modern-day Japan. The film is in Japanese, with
English subtitles.
     Nov. 8-Mississippi Masala. Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury
star in this exploration of intercultural relationships in the modern-
day American south. The film is in English.
     For more information on the film series, call 855-1657 or contact
McLeod via e-mail at Mark.McLeod@mvs.udel.edu.


More comedy set in the Hen Zone
     The Hen Zone of the Perkins Student Center has added yet another
act to its popular series of comedy concerts.
     A special comedy night with African-American comedian Rodney
Johnson, who has toured with the comedy group "Def Comedy Jam," is
planned for 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 22.
     In addition, the E-52 Student Theatre will present a night of one-
acts, Ives Got Somethin' to Show You, at 8:15 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 15-16. The evening's entertainment includes five one-
act plays by comedic playwright David Ives.
     All shows are free and open to the public.For information on Hen
Zone events, call 831-6694.


Israeli pop music is program topic
     Gila Flam, Israeli ethnomusicologist, will present a program on
Israeli popular music at 3:30 p.m., Sept. 20, in Room 207 of the Amy
E. du Pont Music Building.
     Flam's work deals primarily with Yiddish music and Israeli
popular songs. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and
serves as the director of the music department and national sound
archives of the National and Hebrew University Library.
     The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored
by the Frank and Yetta Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies.
     For information, call 831-3324.


Forum focus is on women's issues
     A "Forum on Global Women's Issues" will be held at 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Sept. 27, in the Crystal Ballroom of the DuPont Country
Clubs.
     Speakers will be Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, former U.S.
representative and director of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Fourth
World Conference on Women; and Gracia Hillman, senior coordinator for
international women's issues in the U.S. State Department's Office of
the Under Secretary for Global Affairs.
     Tickets, at $10 per person, include a post-program reception.
There will be a cash bar. For information, call 764-6654, 478-8400 or
984-2570.
     The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and
People to People International, Delaware chapter, and the U.S.
Department of Labor, Women's Bureau. The University's Women's Studies
Interdisciplinary Program is among the local partners involved in the
event.